"I have a long love affair with cardboard. I began by playing in large refrigerator boxes and teaching children in central park to engineer with cardboard. Later, I was a cardboard apprentice at Adaptive Design and designed equipment for disabled children. This evolved into a senior project in mechanical engineering and then into a pop-up storefront in New Haven, Connecticut. Now I'm ready to save the world, one cardboard chair at a time."

Creating Sustainably

chairigami is an innovative designer and manufacturer of cardboard furniture. We provide lightweight, flatpacking, recycable, and inexpensive products to fill the need for temporary yet durable furniture.

Our furniture is free of nasty resins and glues, we're just a no-glue kind of company. We believe in producing recyclable furniture from renewable resources.

Each piece of furniture is hand crafted right here in Connecticut. Made in America and proud of it.

A material that makes sense...

Most people call it cardboard but that's just a stage name. We manufacture all of our furniture with Triple Wall, a three ply corrugated board that is tough yet forgiving. Each piece of furniture is made from SFI certified sources (Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standards) created to promote responsible forestry management. We get our fiber from sources who practice active management of water quality and wildlife habitats, and protection of biological diversity.